Researchers recorded 268 incidents involving poaching or illegal trade of tortoises and freshwater turtles within India or originating from India between 2013 and 2019. Live or dead tortoises/hard-shell turtles were seized in at least 118 incidents. These incidents included more than 21,000 hard-shell turtles and a big chunk of these seizures containing live tortoises/hard-shell turtles were made in Bengaluru.